We could see the first 60 homer season since 2001

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There are few milestones in baseball that inspire more excitement than the possibility of a player hitting 60 home runs in a season. There are just eight of those campaigns on the books -- Babe Ruth (60 in 1927), Roger Maris (61 in 1961), Mark McGwire (70 in 1998, 65 in 1999), Sammy Sosa (66 in 1998, 63 in 1999 and 64 in 2001) and Barry Bonds (major league record 73 in 2001) -- and none in the past 18 years. Giancarlo Stanton hit 59 home runs in 2017, the closest anyone has come to the 60-home-run mark since the league instituted mandatory drug testing in 2006.

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